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Point to Point Communication
Current Topics
● Streams
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Active discussions in teleconferences
● Allocate receive
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On hold until San Jose meeting
● Receive reduce
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On hold until San Jose meeting
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What is an MPI Stream?
● From single sender to single receiver only
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Joined by an existing communicator
● Ordered and reliable
● Sender can send any amount(s) of data
● Receiver can receive any amount(s) of data
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(up to what is available)
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Discussion Issues with MPI Streams
● Data-types as the unit of transmission?
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Should normal message boundaries be ignored?
● Flow-control/buffering?
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e.g. receiver consistently slower than sender
● Allow buffer underrun or block receiver?
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e.g. receiver wants 33 integers but only 16 available
● What benefit(s) does an MPI Stream have
over normal point-to-point?
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Allocate Receive
● MPI_Arecv: the receive buffer is an output
argument instead of an input argument, and the
implementation allocates that memory internally.
● Allows implementation to allocate memory for the
size of the message, eliminates buffering overhead
when message size is not known a priori.
● Allows copy-free implementation of unexpected
messages using an eager-like protocol.
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Receive Reduce/Accumulate
● MPI_Recv_{reduce,accumulate}: the incoming data is
reduced/accumulated onto the receive buffer.
● Matches a common application pattern during boundary
element exchange and allows implementation to
minimize buffering in this case and potentially do more
efficiently.
● Useful for creating user-defined, potentially dynamic
reduction trees, without graph communicators.
● May allow for more efficient implementation of some
forms of active-messages.
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Meeting details
● Teleconference calls
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Fortnightly on Monday at 11:00 central US
Next on 5th January 2015
● Email list:
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[email protected]
● Face-to-face meetings
http://meetings.mpi-forum.org/Meeting_details.php
o Next on 8th-11th December in San Jose, CA
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